My friend Mark took over an old pre-war mansion in Kuala Kangsar from his father and the
reason he lost his new found girl friends also because of the mansion.
Some time
ago, when Mark and his parents were still staying in the old mansion. One day he decided to
bring his newly acquainted girl friend, Lisa to meet his parents. A dinner session was
arranged and Mark’s mom prepared a lot of dishes to welcome the lady visitor.
All went
well except that Mark thought his to-be girl friend acted strangely. The only
point one could pick was that the lady visitor seems to be ‘attracted’ to
certain object in the mansion. She would fix her stare at a corner, and at
times; she would smile at thin air as if greeting someone.
After the
dinner, perhaps the lady guest had asked something she shouldn’t:
“I know it
is none of my business. Why is it that you have introduced everyone in the
house except one old grandpa?”
Mark
replied bewilderedly:
“What grand
pa? The only old pa is my father who sat opposite you during the dinner!”
The lady
immediately responded:
“Oh! I don’t
mean your pa… But the old grandpa I meant was the one who was sitting beside me
listening quietly to our conversations. No one served him any food and he just
sat lonely beside the table…”
There was a
silence from Mark as he tried to relate to a particular figure according the
narrations of his would be girlfriend. Suddenly, the lady shouted in excitement
and pointed her finger towards an old picture on the wall:
“Ah! This
is the old pa I meant!!”
Again there
was a long silent from Mark. Then his mother broke the silence and said:
“Oh! That
was Mark’s late grandpa who died 10 years ago…”
After that,
the lady never returned to the mansion.
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